 How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 6041873Full view - About this book
 | 1873 - 790 pages
...puhes only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to be feon in them by the finest senses ? How can we pass most...meantime it is only the roughness of the age that makes nny two persons, things, situations, ncem alike. While all melts under our feet, we may well catch... | |
 | Walter Pater - 1873 - 258 pages
...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? To burn always with this hard...stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 pages
...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? "To burn always with this hard,...stereotyped world; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we... | |
 | 1876 - 604 pages
...burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy ' (viz. of artistic perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for...stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two things, persons, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we... | |
 | 1902 - 550 pages
...possible contrive to be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstacy, is success in life ' (pp. 64-5). It is not, however, with this lower Humanism that we are... | |
 | 1876 - 576 pages
...abstract moralising which Wordsworth prescribes as its proper food ? Mr. Pater shall once more decide. ' To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy ' (viz. of artistic perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative... | |
 | 1876 - 606 pages
...abstract moralising which Wordsworth prescribes as its proper food ? Mr. Pater shall once more decide. ' To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy ' (viz. of artistic perception) ' is success in life. Failure is to form habits, for habit is relative... | |
 | Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - 1878 - 378 pages
...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy? To burn always with this hard,...stereotyped world ; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike. While all melts under our feet, we... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pages
...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? " To burn always with this hard...gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success 1 Waller. in life. Failure is to form habits ; for habit is relation to a stereotyped world . . . while... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pages
...point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy ? "To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is suc1 Waller. cess in life. Failure is to form Tiabits; for habit is relation to a stereotyped world... | |
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